News which broke on Friday – that Cristiano Ronaldo has reportedly bought a mega-mansion in Dubai – will likely come as no surprise to the dedicated followers of CR7.
The 38-year-old football tycoon is a canny investor in business properties, which includes his lucrative eponymous hotel chain, as well as no stranger to splashing out on exclusive homes around the globe for his personal usage.
His reported latest purchase is a staggering one. Situated on Jumeirah Bay Island, the 30,000 square-metre villa has six bedrooms, private access to the beach, a showroom for seven cars, a spa, a swimming pool with a view of downtown Dubai and accommodation for employees on site.
If the deal goes ahead, the property will become the Portugal icon’s sixth known property in an empire which spans four countries and two continents.
But rather than let his portfolio stay stagnant, Ronaldo has also offloaded a number in recent years, selling his New York apartment in Trump Tower at a cut-down rate in February 2022, and reportedly parting ways with his villa in northern Portugal with its sale to his national team-mate Pepe.
Here, Mail Sport runs through Ronaldo’s blockbuster existing personal property portfolio.
A ‘retirement’ mansion on the Portuguese Riviera
While Ronaldo is keen to extend his playing career for as long as possible, thoughts were already on a future away from the pitch with the purchase of a significant plot on the Portuguese Riviera in late 2021.
The Portuguese superstar is believed to have his eye on his future after he finishes playing
Ronaldo’s ‘hospital-sized’ mansion (pictured: CGI impressions of the completed property) is a year behind schedule and currently resembles a construction site
The cost of the project has continued to increase and it may now end up costing over £28m
Two city-centre crash pads in Lisbon
When tired of the country, Ronaldo and his family will have to travel only 30 minutes to stay in either of the player’s lavish properties in Portugal’s capital Lisbon.
Reports suggest that the former Real Madrid star purchased the penthouse property in the city where he made his footballing start in 2018, and the Avenida da Liberdade pad is said to be one of the most expensive apartments ever sold in the country.
The £6million home includes a gym, three large bedrooms, and a spa, as well as jaw-dropping views of the city’s skyline.
The 38-year-old is also said to own a second flat of unknown value in the Rua Castilho area of Lisbon.
Ronaldo’s Lisbon penthouse has impressive views of the Lisbon cityscape – but no longer features a pool as in early design models .
The £7m Funchal renovation
Ronaldo’s roots in Madeira, the island where he was born, are strong, making it no surprise that the property magnate has snapped up an eye-catching home base.
The Al-Nassr player purchased the former warehouse in 2015 and spent £7m renovating the seven-storey mansion, where his mother Dolores and brother Hugo are thought to live.
Ronaldo renovated a former warehouse to build his seven-storey apartment-block style home
The house has two swimming pools – one on the roof – as well as two gyms and a small indoor football pitch where Ronaldo can train while he is staying at home
But during the 2020 lockdown, Ronaldo moved his family to a rented villa with more space
The last link to Manchester United
One property that Ronaldo is keen to shift is his base in Manchester. A year after his muddled exit from former club Man United, his mansion in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, remains on the market.
Ronaldo has already had to lower the initial February 2023 listing price of £5.5m significantly, with the seven-bedroom house now tagged with a guide price of £4.9m.
A prospective new owner of the 23-acre estate would find themselves in possession of a two-bed guest barn as well as the main house, plus property features including a cinema room, a wine store, a leisure suite with pool, gym, sauna, and jacuzzi, and a padel tennis court.
Home base at Real Madrid
His home for the majority of his stint at the Bernabeu, Ronaldo has attempted to shift his £4.8m property in the exclusive enclave of La Finca, but in April 2023, decided to list the property for rent instead.
The Madrid mansion was the 38-year-old’s base for much of his career with Los Blancos
The property is now thought to be available for private rental, although the family still use it
When she first started visiting her boyfriend’s house, Ronaldo’s partner Georgina Rodriguez said she got lost
The property also features a multi-car garage for the player’s many expensive super-cars
A Spanish villa in a sporting neighbourhood
Ronaldo and UFC star Conor McGregor may have looked like an incongruous pair when seated next to one another at the ‘Day of Reckoning’ fight night in Saudi Arabia last month, but the £1.4m holiday villa bought by the player in Marbella makes them reportedly long-time neighbours.
Ronaldo is believed to have purchased the pad – which is located in the exclusive enclave of La Resina, a golf and country club estate between Marbella and nearby Estepona – in 2019, and like Ronaldo’s other properties, the house reflects his interest in contemporary design.
The four-bedroom complex also includes an infinity swimming pool with views of the Mediterranean.
… and his home in Saudi Arabia
It is not widely known if Ronaldo has moved into a permanent base as he becomes more settled in Saudi Arabia, but his last-known location was an appropriately opulent one.
Ronaldo and his family stayed at the Four Seasons hotel after moving to Riyadh in early 2023
The star and his family stayed in the hotel’s lavish ‘Kingdom Suite’ – which stretches two floors
Its location in the Kingdom Tower gives the suite incompable views of Ronaldo’s new city
